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Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed

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Enlarge Corset cover (left), ca. 1914
American
White cotton
Courtesy of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

Bust enhancer (center), ca. 1900
De Bevoise
White cotton and horse hair
Courtesy of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Hinkley Riggs

Corset cover (right), 1900–1910
American
Ivory cotton and metal
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Hoechst Fiber Industies Fund, 1982 (1982.316.8)

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